Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Comparing the King James Bible with the version cobbled up by the Anchor Press, Mr. Webster might justifiably say that they have transformed, transferred, removed, changed, transported and ravished the story of the Bible...
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...defense of the Anchor Bible, Editor Albright points out: "We have learned more about the Bible in the past 150 years than in all the previous centuries since its composition." The King James translators, for example, had only 16th century copies of New Testament manuscripts to work from; scholars today can consult papyrus fragments that date from within 60 years of Jesus' crucifixion...
...Anchor scholars have had to abandon some of the King James Version's most striking images, which often stemmed from misreadings of a corrupt text. Gone from Speiser's Genesis, for example, is Joseph's coat of many colors. "It's a wonderful technicolored effect," says Speiser. "But we had to put it in mothballs. In those days everybody wore a coat of many colors. Besides, the Hebrew clearly states that he wore an ornamented tunic...
...place on King James's team. Biblical experts of all faiths have particularly high praise for the crisp, idiomatic rendering of Genesis (see box) by Orientalist Speiser, a Polish-born Jew who knew not a word of English until he was 18. The publishers plan to issue the Anchor Bible in 38 volumes (price: between $5 and $7 each) at the rate of six a year, until 1970. Says Editor Freedman: "We want to have a set ready for our astronauts to take with them to the moon...